Logo
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. – Diane de Poitiers

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Courage
category

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not. – David Seabury

Category:
Courage

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. – Rick Perry

Category:
Courage

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. – Karl Von Clausewitz

Category:
Courage

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. – Jean Paul

Category:
Courage

Random Quotes

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because Im not a fighter. – Herman Cain

Category:
Family

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 19

Category:
Self-Control

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. – Audre Lorde

Category:
Women

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. – Celia Thaxter

Category:
Summer